Changelog

1.1.3 — July 14, 2026

• New: the Dock icon now follows your Mac's light/dark appearance automatically — or pin it to Light or Dark from the new appearance toggle.
• Fixed: the Dock icon rendered edge-to-edge with no padding, making it look larger than every other app in the Dock. It now follows Apple's standard icon grid, sized and spaced to match.

1.1.2 — July 13, 2026

• twoplus11 wordmark credit in the footer and update panel.
• Occasional, low-pressure prompt to support twoplus11 after extended use — never more than once, easy to dismiss for good.

1.1.1 — July 12, 2026

• New: clearer Help and Review buttons in the header, so support and feedback are one click away.
• Fixed: re-scanning a folder no longer skips a file just because its name happens to contain "(scrubbed)" — that guard now only applies to Scrubbr's own scrubbed copies, not files you drop or pick directly.

1.1.0 — July 11, 2026 · Deeper reveal, more thorough strip

A deep polish and capability pass. The reveal got more powerful, the strip got more thorough, and everything got faster and friendlier.

• Audio really scrubs now. Dropping an MP3 or AAC strips its ID3v2 (and legacy ID3v1) tags with a pure-stdlib rewriter — artist, "encoded by," encoder software, comments, embedded private frames and timestamps all go, and the audio bytes are preserved exactly (no re-encode). Previously inspect-only.
• Office comments & tracked changes are actually removed. With the option on, Scrubbr now deletes the comment parts and their relationships, content-type overrides and in-body anchors, and accepts every tracked change (keeps inserted text, drops deleted text, strips the revision markup) — leaving clean, valid OOXML. Formatting and tables are preserved.
• PDF wart minimised. PDFKit re-stamps a generic Producer and fresh dates on every save; Scrubbr now blanks those (and any reachable XMP) in place, byte-for-byte, so a re-inspect comes up empty — and it's honest in the UI about what a PDF writer can't reach.
• Folder & bulk drops. Dropping a folder now recurses into it and adds every supported file; drop many at once. A progress bar shows the scan and big batch scrubs, and there's a per-file thumbnail/preview.
• Privacy summary headline. A banner up top tells you the scary truth at a glance — "3 of 7 files reveal your location" — with a one-click Scrub.
• Select & scrub the ones you want. Checkbox-select files (keyboard-friendly) and Scrub selected, or Scrub all.
• Reveal in Finder for the original, not just the clean copy.
• Replace original (keep backup). Opt-in in-place scrub that overwrites the file and keeps a "(original)" backup beside it — never lossy, off by default. If a source folder is read-only, Scrubbr offers to save the clean copy in a folder you pick instead of failing.
• Remembered options. Your last-used strip settings persist across launches.
• Friendlier everywhere. Recoverable, plain-English messages for read-only folders, full disks, permission issues and unreadable files — never a raw traceback. Progress announcements and the privacy summary are surfaced to VoiceOver.

1.0.0 — July 11, 2026 · Initial public release

The first release. Drop a file, see what it's hiding, strip it — with your original never touched.

• The reveal. Drop a photo, PDF, Office document or video and Scrubbr shows the hidden metadata it's carrying — GPS location, author, camera make/model and serial, software, tracked changes, comments, timestamps — grouped into Location, Identity, Device, History, Timestamps and Other, with everything privacy-relevant flagged red and explained in plain English ("reveals where this file has been").
• The strip. One click writes a clean copy next to the original — the source file is never overwritten or deleted, and if the "(scrubbed)" name is taken it disambiguates instead of clobbering.
  • Images (JPG/PNG/HEIC/TIFF/GIF): pixels re-encoded to a fresh file with no EXIF/GPS/XMP; ICC colour profile kept and orientation baked in so it looks identical.
  • PDF: document info dictionary and XMP cleared (info dictionary only — not embedded object streams; the UI says so).
  • Office (DOCX/XLSX/PPTX): authorship blanked, custom.xml dropped, comments and tracked-change parts optionally removed; zip order and compression kept.
  • Video/audio (MP4/MOV/M4V/M4A): passthrough remux with metadata cleared — fast and lossless. The QuickTime GPS tag (the big iPhone location leak) goes with it.
• Options. Strip Everything or Location only; toggle Remove comments & tracked changes and Keep colour profile.
• Batch. Drop many files (or a folder); each gets its own card; Scrub all cleans them in one go with a before → after summary and a Reveal in Finder link on each clean copy.
• 100% local. No file — or metadata — ever leaves your Mac.
• Bespoke, accessible UI. Native macOS look, light and dark mode, full keyboard navigation, focus-trapped modals, ARIA labels and live announcements, honoured Reduce Motion, helpful empty state, toast on every action, and a confirm modal for clearing the list.
• Free for personal use forever (including updates); one-time $5 business license.